{"id":16021,"date":"2016-12-13T18:55:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T18:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16021"},"modified":"2016-12-13T18:55:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T18:55:41","slug":"picture-in-time-prague-180-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16021","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Prague 180"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have previously seen the subject of today\u2019s \u201cPicture in Time\u201d, <strong>Prague 180<\/strong>, in operation at Crich but not when it had only been in the UK a few days having escaped from its home country before the Soviet tanks arrived.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This view was taken on 1st September 1968 during the first Transport Extravaganza when Crich had several thousand visitors on site including the team from Czechoslovakia who had accompanied <strong>180<\/strong> on its journey across Europe. It really can\u2019t be understated how much of an achievement it was getting <strong>180<\/strong> across the Czech border before the Soviet occupation began but at the same time the Czechs who came with the tram also had the worry of what was going on in their homeland. <strong>180<\/strong> was driven straight off the trailer and was driven along the line as a test \u2013 just goes to show how things have changed today!<\/p>\n<p>We catch up with 180 at Town End terminus with crowds of people waiting to board the tram as the conductor waits to turn the trolley.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16022\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=16022\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16022\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16022\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16022\" title=\"180-pn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/180-pn-550x547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/180-pn-550x547.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/180-pn-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/180-pn.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Peter Narramore<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have previously seen the subject of today\u2019s \u201cPicture in Time\u201d, Prague 180, in operation at Crich but not when it had only been in the UK a few days having escaped from its home country before the Soviet tanks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16021\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16024,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021\/revisions\/16024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}